All of the original cast will be returning for the big-screen outing and now, along with four new images from the film, Entertainment Weekly also has quotes from the cast and director to hint at what's in store for our favourite characters when the film picks up in the autumn of 1927.

For Michelle Dockery's Lady Mary, the film will see her having "matured" following the news that she was expecting a baby in the series finale, with actress Dockery saying that fans will see Mary "settled" in her romance for once.

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"She's embraced her responsibility much more now as she’s matured," Dockery tells EW.

"As much as Mary is very independent, her loyalty always remains with Downton… There’s a sense of Mary holding it all together."

Of Mary's relationship with Henry Talbot (Matthew Goode), Michelle added: "What you see is her for once being settled. They’re very supportive of one another and they're good friends.

"It’s nice to see Mary in that way as opposed to being in constant turmoil about her love life."

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As for Mary's sister Edith (Laura Carmichael), director Michael Engler teased a bit of a learning curve for her and her new husband Bertie (Harry Hadden-Paton), who ended the series by becoming the seventh Marquess of Hexham, outranking even the Crawley family.

"The two of them are adapting to being a married couple and to her being a lady of one of these great houses," Engler explained. "It brings with it much more responsibility and protocol than she was raised with at Downton.

"On one level, they’re these modern people in their training and expectations, but then, they are in the roles of these very elevated, cultural positions."

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Elsewhere, Tom Branson actor Allen Leech teased that Tom is "much more suited" to these new societal changes than the Crawleys are, and hinted that the film could see him settle down in a relationship for the first time since Sybil's death.

"Given the fact that he is one of the only ones left who hasn’t found love, one would hope and assume there is an opportunity for him to have an iota of a chance at finding something," Leech teased.

Yes, Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess is alive and well in the first-look pictures, and Engler teases that she hasn't changed a bit.

"She feels very much the same in this," he said. "She represents the oldest of the old guard. She has a beautiful line in the film where she says to Mary, 'One must have standards, but one must not be inflexible.'

"That’s what she’s always stood for."

Michelle Dockery also added that the Downton Abbey film will be more of the same, adding: "It’s more of the characters [people] love. It really is an extension of the series, but on a grander scale.

"The sets and the costumes and the work that has gone in creatively is remarkable. It’s incredibly sumptuous and all the great things people love about Downton."

The Downton Abbey movie will be released September 13, 2019 in the UK, and September 20, 2019 in the US.

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